'Playing between Classes': America's Troubles with Class, Race, and Gender in a Black High School and Community

Autor: Linwood H. Cousins
Rok vydání: 1999
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Zdroj: Anthropology Education Quarterly. 30:294-316
ISSN: 1548-1492
0161-7761
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.1999.30.3.294
Popis: ethnographic portrait of class as it unfolds with race and gender in a black high school and community. Traditionally viewed as troubling, these students (and staff) play between classes in ways that impact structural analyses of class and their implications for public policy. Education. I need [it] to be successful in life. I understand that. Because it comes easy to me, it's no problem. But as far as what's bein' taught, for most kids it don't really have no bearing on they life. It have bearing on the way they think. Say like in English class ... basic English class, you probably just learn how to write sentences or somethin' like that. Or definitions of words. But them not the words you use in everyday life. The English class I'm in now, we read stories, but the teacher take it further than that. We gotta apply that to some things that might happen in our lives. I accept this challenge totally. I desire this challenge because it will enable me to better myself, give me all the opportunities to prove to this world that I am a man. I understand that a college education is the road to success, and I feel if that's what it takes, that's what they will get from me, and after that, the "man" will never see me face to face again.
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